WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnny Cash can now be seen in the unlikeliest of venues: the U.S. Capitol.Congressional leaders, Arkansas lawmakers and members of the Cash family were on hand Tuesday for the unveiling of a bronze statue depicting the “Man in Black.”Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., joined Arkansas' congressional delegation, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and members of the Cash family for the event.The Cash statue is the second new figure Arkansas has sent to replace two existing images that had represented the state at the U.S. Capitol for more than 100 years. Another statue depicting civil rights leader Daisy Bates was unveiled at the Capitol earlier this year. Bates mentored the nine Black children who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.The state's legislature in 2019 voted to replace Arkansas' two prior statues, which depicted little-known figures from the 18th and 19th centuries, with Bates and Cash.The two were approved after Arkansas lawmakers…

Johnny Cash will soon be seen in the unlikeliest of venues, with a statue of the famed singer about to be unveiled at the U.S. Capitol.

See the Johnny Cash statue at the U.S. Capitol, unveiled in a ceremony in September.

Johnny Cash claimed to have traveled every road in this here land, but Arkansas was always his first home. He’ll represent the state in the form of a new statue unveiled today at the US Capitol, making him the first musician memorialized at the National Statuary Hall collection.